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After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life. Each woman in the circle teaches Mary a new knitting technique, and, as they do, they reveal to her their own personal stories of love, loss, and hope. Eventually, Mary is able to tell her own story of grief. In doing so, she...
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2018.
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English
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"A richly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island A reckless wager between a tennis pro with a fading career and a drunken party guest--the stakes are an antique motorcycle and an heiress's diamond necklace--launches a narrative odyssey that braids together three centuries of aspiration and adversity. A witty and urbane bachelor of the Gilded Age embarks on a high-risk scheme to marry...
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Haunted bookshop mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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The local Film Noir festival takes a dark turn when a legendary femme fatale is nearly killed. Now, bookstore owner Penelope Thornton-McClure enlists the help of Jack Shepard, P.I., even though he and his license expired more than fifty years ago.
Author
Series
Haunted bookshop mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Penelope Thornton-McClure manages a Rhode Island bookshop rumored to be haunted. When a bestselling author drops dead signing books, the first clue of foul play comes from the store's full-time ghost-a PI murdered on the very spot more than fifty years ago. Is he a figment of Pen's overactive imagination? Or is the likable, fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime?
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Haunted bookshop mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Don't haunt the customers" this was the only rule bookshop owner and widow Penelope Thornton-McClure had given her resident ghost, hard-boiled PI Jack Shepard. But when the hot young author Angel Stark arrives at the store to promote her latest, a true crime novel, Jack can hardly contain himself. After all, this is his specialty! Angel's book is an unsolved mystery about a debutante found strangled to death. And it's filled with juicy details that...
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Series
Haunted bookshop mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Shortly after an old friend gives Aunt Sadie a rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works, he is found dead. The police say it was an accident. But bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure, Sadie's niece, has her doubts. When someone else turns up dead, Penelope is accused of stealing the book. Pen wants to clear her name and sets out to do so with the help of the ghost of Jack Shepard, a hard-boiled PI who died in the 1940's.
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